There's fog on the farm, rain on the roses and goats in the garden....

It's just another rainy, cool and foggy day on the farm.
I thought this was the perfect time to show you my favorite climbing rose.
I like it in the rain too!

It has ever changing color and is so interesting to watch the flower change as time goes on.


Turning from a dark orangy red.....

to a very light peach as the days go by.

Sorta like a woman's hair??

Sorry but mine has not reached that beautiful shade yet.

Maybe as my days go on?

See the fog?

See the goat tracks?

I woke up to 3 little boogers (not the babies) in my garden!

Urgh Urgh Urgh!!!

BTW...my babies are doing just great!

They are the friskiest ones I have ever seen!

3 days old and venturing out across the field from their mom, playing king of the mountain and running laps thru the pasture!! Sooooo cute!!

Do you see goldfish?

I do, for the first time this season.

I broke down and purchased a UV filter to go along with the biological filter that was already installed. The guy on youtube said it would only take 3 days for the algae to be removed but it has taken almost a week for ours. We have stubborn algae in these parts!!

Rain is also very pretty on my Smoke Tree!

Except when you are looking at the whole tree.

It's sorta scary if you ask me.

Looks like something out of a horror film that will grab you as you walk by and eat you!

I forgot to share with you my once beautiful irises.

They are still in color even though not at their peak any longer.

and these!

I am not liking the rain, even though we need it really bad.

Yesterday was spent in a constant state of vegetation.

I finally got a puff of air up my bottom about 8PM and with it came a burst of energy that threw me in a tailspin! I have one very very clean bathroom and laundry room this morning!

wooowoooo

However, I have lots of dirty dishes in my sink and dust bunnies all over the rest of the house!
Today is a repeat of yesterday,

other than waking up to goats in the garden, so I have to get started on some more cleaning.

I will have lots of outside chores soon enough and you can't drag me inside then!!

Have a great day!!

ps. I had no eggs hatch in my incubator. Zero. Nada.

Guess I am not a good old setting hen any longer.

My last batch was terrific at about 85% or more.

I am not sure what would have went wrong this time.

Everything should have been right.

I don't think I will try that again.

It's too much work turning those eggs so often.

Poor mama hen!!

Water Garden Maintainence

Pictures surely are deceiving at times. My water garden looks really good in these pictures but in reality it looks like a mud bog.

I have been neglecting it somewhat for the past few years as I have my perennial beds.

I am turning over a new lily pad this year though!!

I love water and water gardens and fish ponds and rivers and streams and lakes and oceans and pools better than anyone in the world.

I have had several smaller water features over the years and one much bigger fresh water mud bog. I had such great plans for this one.

We got it built and filled and moved all my {{{{{HUGE}}}}} Koi from my bigger pond that was beside our fishpond. The Koi were never seen in that mudhole so I begged for this pond at my house. I picked out the perfect spot in front of my living room window so I could look out at the fish swimming around all day.

What I didn't realize was that I would be watching turtles, snakes and frogs swimming around all day long ;-)))

Build it and they will come!!!

We added a few water plants and things were looking pretty good the first year, even though the rock around the edges didn't get finished for several years, that was my Mother's Day gift last year. One weekend a few years back the pond water turned green and my brilliant husband decided that he would use the copper sulfate that he uses on the big fish pond to kill algae, to clean this water up. Well he did. On Friday evening he put a dab of it in the pond and the next morning it was clear as a crystal when he got up and checked on it. I came in about an hour later, from working an allnighter in the ER til 7AM and rounded the curve to find him with a shovel filled up with at 20"Butterfly Koi that was dead and he was throwing him across the fence...........wha????? He decided that if a little dab of copper sulphate did that good that a little dab more would be even better!! He killed 19 huge Koi!!!! All 19 Koi!!!!

I was not a happy camper but he was so upset with himself that I felt sorry for him too. He offered to replace them all but I opted to go the goldfish route this time. I have since used copper sulfate in very minute doses with good results. I used it this morning and then Postman Bob brought me my package from ebay today.........

20 Water Hyacinth plants from Florida!!

My daddy always hated those things when we lived in Florida and he would probably laugh at me for buying them. They used to get hung in the prop on our boat.

I needed them to shade and oxygenate my water.

I purchased 20 plants but when they came I had 41!!!! woowooooo!!!!

We have had extremely hard winds here and the pond is so full of debris from the neighboring trees.


I really need to get on a pair of hip waders and hop in there so I can really clean the floor of the pond...........................but I have nightmares about rubber hip boots filled with cold water. Just ask Danny about taking me trout fishing and me slipping on a slick algae covered rock and having my hip boots fill up with very cold creek water in April!!
I WAS NOT A HAPPY CAMPER EITHER!!!!
I think I will pass and let him do that. I ain't hankering to get in there with flip flops on either. I told you earlier the sort of critters that I have seen hanging out in there!!

Fish

I have had this fish bowl or what ever you want to call it over on my other blog and I would go over there periodically to feed the fish. So I decided to add it to this blog today! Just place your curser over the fish and click a couple times to drop them some food and watch them gobble it up!! Someone designed this with me in mind!! I love feeding our fish in both ponds here on the farm. We have a stocked pond with a couple hundred catfish, a few bream and bass. Supposedly a hundred crappie but we have yet to see one of them. We get so excited when our 3 white catfish finally decide by the end of summer that they will start coming up where we can see them!

I have about 25 goldfish in my garden pond that I can see from my living room window.......when it's not covered with ice!!!! I wish I could keep it heated so I could see my fishies year round!!

I can just sit for hours and watch them eat! Both online and in person. I really need a shot of summer here!!!! In case you haven't already been able to tell that!!

As promised - a look see around my garden!

Don't ya just love Snowballs!
My first water lily bloom of the year and it opened on Mother's Day!!

Looks pretty good from a distance. Don't get real close cause it's a jungle and something could come out and grab you! No really it could!

This is what we worked on yesterday. The pics don't do it justice. My dh is so good to me. It only took him about 3 or 4 years now to finish it.

Mother's Day gift about 10 or 11 years ago. The pergola that is. I have a New Dawn rose on either end and it looks lovely when they are in bloom. The pergola however is crumbling down now and the rose on left has completely died. There is a clematis on the left that is thriving well but the dead rose looks horrible. I am afraid to cut the dead one down because the rickety pergola will fall down. I am waiting until after the rose blooms to tear it down and let dh rebuild me another one ;-)

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Happy Mother's Day to all!